The Federal Government has directed the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to inform all Electricity Distribution Companies (DISCOs) to reverse to tariffs that were applicable in December 2020.
Naija News reports that the directive was made known in a statement by Aaron Artima, the Senior Special Adviser, Media and Communications to the Minister of Power, Mr Saleh Mamman, on Thursday.
He said the order to reversal to the old tariff was to promote a constructive conclusion of the dialogue with the Labour Centres (through the Joint Ad-Hoc Committee).
Mamman said: I have directed NERC to inform all DISCOs that they should revert to the tariffs that were applicable in December 2020 until the end of January 2021 when the FGN and Labour committee work will be concluded.
This will allow for the outcome of all resolutions from the Committee to be implemented together.
Speaking further, the Minister of Power debunked reports that electricity tariff had been increased by 50 per cent.
I would like to affirm that these reports are inaccurate and false. It is unfortunate that these reports have led to confusion with the public.
On the contrary, Government continues to fully subsidise 55 per cent of on-grid consumers in bands D and E and maintain the lifeline tariff for the poor and underprivileged.
Those citizens have experienced no changes to tariff rates from what they have paid historically, aside from the recent minor inflation and forex adjustment. Partial subsidies were also applied for bands A, B and C in October 2020, he said.
The Power Minister said that these measures were all aimed at cushioning the effects of the pandemic while providing more targeted interventions for citizens.
He said a joint committee led by estus Keyamo, Minister of State for Labour and Productivity and Co-Chaired by the Minister of State for Power, Goddy Jedy-Agba was already having positive discussions about the electricity sector.
Mamman said progress has been made in these deliberations which are set to be concluded at the end of January.
Recall that the NERC had approved an increase in electricity tariffs starting from January 1, 2021. Electricity consumers will have to pay new tariffs for DISCOs.
This comes two months after the commission was forced to approve an increase in electricity tariffs for Nigerians from November 2020.
An extension notice signed by the new NERC Chairman, Engineer Sanusi Garba on December 30, 2020, the new electricity tariff increase will take effect on January 1, 2021, in accordance with NERC Act / 2028/2020 agrees.
In its new regulation NERC / 225/2020, NERC stated that it took this step because of inflation in November 2020, and each dollar was N379.4 in December 2020, as a result, power companies must increase the cost of electricity.
The new increase in electricity prices will remain in place until June 2021 when a new plan will be put in place to apply until December 2021, NERC said in a statement.
I seriously cant believe no one has gone with this answer yet, but here goes:
Eminem
He was born with the name Marshall Mathers lll, and I was actually shocked when I came to find out about the type of background that he came from.
His mother was just 15 when he was born, and nearly died while giving birth to him. When he was two months old, his abusive father left him and his mother to cope by themselves. His mother was also abusive, hitting him and shouting. His mother (Debbie) suffered from Munchausen by proxy syndrome, which is trying to seek attention and sympathy from people by pretending that others in your household are sick. This is usually mothers with their children, and this results in the mother trying to make the child sick by giving them unnecessary medicine's, starving them to try and make them skinny, keeping them off school so they cant make friends, I think you get the picture. Its a form of abuse towards the child.
She often threw him out of the house when they had arguments. She used to starve him sometimes, and sneak drugs into his food then force it down his throat. When he was 11 or 12, his stepbrother and bestfriend -Ronnie- committed suicide, she told Marshall that she wished he had died instead. He was bullied badly at school, shut up in lockers, beaten up; once so badly that he was put in a coma for a week. As a child, he lived and traveled a lot in a caravan, so he changed schools at least twice a year, not even enough time to make friends. At high school, he met his first proper friend, Proof, another rapper. At sixteen, he was already taking up multiple jobs to help pay the bills as his mother spent all their money on men and drugs.
In 1992, he married Kim Scott and in 1995 he had his daughter, Hailie. In 2002, they divorced for the first time after an incredibly abusive relationship. There is evidence to suggest that Kim was the abusive one, cheating on him behind his back, getting pregnant with another guy, and Marshall raised that child. Kim sued him and took Hailie away from him for few years. A few security guards claimed they saw Kim shout at him, call him useless and smack his head against a wall. His mother and childhood bully also sued him.
In 2006, they got back together for a short period of time then broke up again. Proof also died in 2006 as a victim of a shooting, and Marshall took his death hard. He started overdosing on drugs, to the point where he nearly lost his own life.
His mother had three other boys, and he basically had to raise them himself, as his mother clearly didnt know how to raise children.
In his songs, he openly admitted some of his struggles, like fighting the devil for his soul (My Darling), murdering his ex-wife (Kim), revealing how fucked up his life is (My Name Is), and his mothers abuse towards him and his siblings (Cleaning Out My Closet, My Mom, My Name Is) and how he is hurting inside due to his rubbish love life (Space Bound).
On top of all this, he was used and spat out by the industry. He admitted to being incredibly lonely, as he couldnt go anywhere without security following him everywhere.
I hope hes in a better place now.
Thanks for all the upvotes. I really appreciate it xoxo
edit: By the way, when I said I hope hes in a better place now I meant mentally and his mental state. He is not dead, but alive and still releases music.
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President Trump said on Monday that Attorney General William P. Barr would depart next week, ending a tenure marked by Mr. Barrs willingness to advance the presidents political agenda and criticism that he eroded the post-Watergate independence of the Justice Department.
Mr. Barr had in recent weeks fallen out of favor with the president after acknowledging that the department had found no widespread voter fraud, but Mr. Trump sought to play down their differences, saying in a tweet announcing Mr. Barrs departure, Our relationship has been a very good one, he has done an outstanding job!
Still, his resignation allows Mr. Barr to avoid any confrontation with the president over his refusal to advance Mr. Trumps efforts to rewrite the election results.
Mr. Barr praised Mr. Trump in a resignation letter for overcoming what the attorney general said was an unprecedented effort by his political opponents to take down the president.
No tactic, no matter how abusive and deceitful, was out of bounds, Mr. Barr said. The nadir of this campaign was the effort to cripple, if not oust, your administration with frenzied and baseless accusations of collusion with Russia.
Jeffrey A. Rosen, the No. 2 at the Justice Department, will take over as acting attorney general when Mr. Barr leaves on Dec. 23, and Richard Donoghue, an official in Mr. Rosens office, will become the deputy attorney general.
Mr. Barr, 70, who also served as attorney general in the George Bush administration, was viewed initially in Washington as a stabilizing force in the chaotic Trump era, but that expectation dissipated as he took aim at the Justice Departments own investigation into the Trump campaigns ties to Russia that had long antagonized the president.
Mr. Barr brought the Justice Department closer to the White House than any attorney general in a half-century. Defying the distance that federal law enforcement officials have typically maintained from campaign politics, Mr. Barr spent the months leading up to the election echoing Mr. Trumps unsubstantiated claims of widespread voter fraud. He also told an interviewer that the country would be irrevocably committed to the socialist path if the president were not re-elected.
But he backed off the warnings of voter fraud after the election, saying little publicly for weeks until he said that the department had received no evidence that would overturn Joseph R. Biden Jr.s election. To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election, Mr. Barr told The Associated Press.
That departure from the president was a rare step for Mr. Barr, who had worked to undermine the most significant conclusions of the Russia investigation. Weeks after taking office, he released a summary of the report by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, that a judge later called distorted and misleading, and he held a news conference just before the full report was released where he described it in the best possible light for Mr. Trump.
Mr. Barr appointed a special prosecutor, John H. Durham, to inspect whether the inquiry was wrongfully opened and he sought the withdrawal of the prosecution of Michael T. Flynn, the presidents first national security adviser. He overruled prosecutors who requested a tough sentencing recommendation for Roger J. Stone Jr., one of Mr. Trumps longtime advisers.
Mr. Trump also handed him sweeping declassification powers to learn about any intelligence gathered in 2016 about Russias election interference, giving Mr. Barr leverage to root around at the C.I.A. and other intelligence agencies.
His tenure prompted a handful of career prosecutors to publicly criticize him, highly unusual actions that flouted Justice Department rules prohibiting employees from publicly discussing sensitive internal matters.
Prosecutors are supposed to do their jobs without regard to party or politics, Michael Dion, a prosecutor in Seattle, wrote in a letter to the editor in The Seattle Times. Barr, however, is turning the Justice Department into a shield to protect the president and his henchmen.
Mr. Barr publicly broke with Mr. Trump rarely; before his dismissal of voter fraud claims, the most prominent example came during the fight over Mr. Stones sentencing recommendation. After prosecutors recommended that Mr. Stone be imprisoned for seven to nine years for obstructing a congressional inquiry that threatened to embarrass the president, Mr. Trump publicly called it horrible and very unfair.
Mr. Barrs intervention hours later prompted widespread criticism that the Justice Department was bending to White House pressure. In an effort to quell the criticism, Mr. Barr publicly responded that Mr. Trumps comments made his job impossible by impairing his ability to act without facing accusations of bowing to political interference.
Mr. Trump rebuffed him, continuing to assail the criminal prosecution of Mr. Stone and other issues related to the Russia investigation. But he did not fire Mr. Barr, who was also said to have considered resigning. Some suggested the president had mollified him by agreeing not to cite him in a way that made it seem like he was simply Mr. Trumps lackey.
Mr. Barr took over the Justice Department after the president forced out Jeff Sessions as attorney general in November 2018, reassuming a position Mr. Barr held roughly a quarter of a century ago under President George H.W. Bush. He quickly became one of the most powerful members of Mr. Trumps cabinet.
He swiftly used his discretion to disclose nearly all of a 448-page report by Mr. Mueller on Russian interference in the 2016 election. That decision gave some critics of Mr. Trump hope that the new attorney general would help curb the presidents excesses and protect the department from political interference.
But that faded as Mr. Barr made decisions that dovetailed precisely with Mr. Trumps wishes and the demands of his political allies. In ever stronger terms, he attacked the F.B.I.s investigation, instigating first a review, then criminal inquiry. Like the president himself, he suggested the inquiry was an abuse of the F.B.I.s power.
Despite the fact there was and never has been any evidence of collusion, Mr. Barr said last December, the presidents administration has been dominated by this investigation into what turns out to be completely baseless."
And the question really is, what was the agenda after the election that kept them pressing ahead after their case collapsed? Hes the president of the United States, he said.
Independent reviews have found that investigators opened the Russia inquiry without political bias. The investigation uncovered an elaborate Russian campaign to sabotage the 2016 campaign, the presidents repeated efforts to thwart the inquiry and the Trump campaigns expectation that it would benefit from the Kremlin operations.
After a scathing report by the inspector general illuminated serious omissions and errors in the F.B.I.s applications for warrant to wiretap Carter Page, a onetime Trump campaign adviser, Mr. Barr imposed new restrictions on inquiries directed at presidential campaigns, requiring his personal approval of any inquiry into a 2020 presidential candidate.
An unusually strong advocate of expansive presidential powers, Mr. Barr asserted that the administration had a wide legal berth to fight congressional subpoenas. His broad view of the executive branchs authority, well known before Mr. Trump appointed him, made him a favorite target for Democrats in Congress. But it endeared him to some Republicans, and to the president, who had publicly complained that Mr. Sessions was too weak to stand up for him for months before he fired him.
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